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CANNES: In the format This Time Next Year, which Twofour Rights is distributing, everyday people pledge to make a major change and embark on a 12-month mission to transform their lives in various ways.

NEW YORK: Watch clips and access detailed information on new formats on offer at MIPFormats and MIPTV.

NEW YORK: The TV Formats Preview for MIPFormats and MIPTV provides you with a number of useful services in one location, including a video interview with BBC Worldwide’s Kate Phillips, features on scripted formats and dating and marriage shows, and a Q&A with Banijay Group’s Grant Ross.

LONDON: Positioned as a family entertainment show, BBC Worldwide's The Getaway Car watches as a couple’s relationship is put to the test in the intimate space of a car.

COLOGNE: Original TV formats from Germany are the focus of WDR mediagroup's (WDRmg) MIPTV activities, in line with this year's Focus on Germany.

TEL AVIV: Armoza Formats’s new studio game show Wrecking Ball sees a team of three contestants face four giant wrecking balls and nine increasingly difficult questions for the chance to win $250,000.

The brand-new singing talent show The Legend will make its world premiere at MIPTV, and Global Agency believes it has found “the next big thing” with this format.

CANNES: World Screen’s Anna Carugati is moderating a session at MIPFormats entitled New Creative Boom in the U.S., which will spotlight 60 Days In and Lip Sync Battle.

STOCKHOLM: ITV Studios has snapped up the supernatural cop drama Who Are You, produced by South Korea’s CJ Group and distributed by Eccho Rights.

HILVERSUM: Talpa’s latest format, The Wishing Tree, has been sold to RTVS in Slovakia.